June, 2011

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The Birth Of A Really Bad Idea: Peter Thiel And Knowing Less As A Life Strategy

Bill Fischer

Image via Wikipedia 2011 is the 100th anniversary of a really bad idea. In 1911, the British Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s determination to learn less, rather than more -- about life, clothing and diet in extreme cold conditions -- led to his assuming that he was smarter than thousands of [.

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Innovation trends

Innovation 360 Group

Over the last year the key topics within the world of innovations has been impacted by social responsibility and sustainability aspects, which can be seen by analyzing the last 12 months of Google searching using Google Insights for Search. The top area of interest over the last 12 month has been. business innovation. open innovation. innovation management. technology innovation. social innovation.

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Combating Four Innovation Lies

Innovation 360

Last Friday we could read an interesting blog post by Scott Anthony. It was about four typical innovation pitfalls. Great article , and I like to comment upon it. The first lie is that you can trust the feedback when asking customers, and instead go for what they do today or if they are ready to spend some money on a new idea (on an early stage). This is a very useful way of verifying the real need and according to my experience also to be combined with testing the market with different versions

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Social Innovation: Innovation for the Good of Us All

Bill Fischer

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.That sucks." So says28-year-old Cloudera founder, early Facebook veteranand one of Bloomberg BusinessWeek's "Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs" in 2010, Jeff Hammerbacher, in a refreshing insight about the present state of innovation. In fact,if we're honest [.].

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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CEOs Say Innovation Is Most Important Factor For Growth | Voxy.co.nz

Bill Fischer

Among the "Seven misconceptions" regarding innovation that PwC's 1200 worldwide CEOs identified, there are five that are particularly important : Innovation can be delegated. Not so. The drive to innovate begins at the top. If the CEO doesn't protect and reward the process, it will fail. So many CEOs either "don't [.

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Ready, Fire, Aim!

Bill Fischer

Ready, Fire, Aim! This is the story of my life; at least when I'm lucky. Otherwise, it's more like Fire, Fire, Fire, or occasionally Ready, Ready, Ready. Week after week I am in executive education classrooms, in the company of bright, ambitious, energetic and successful corporate leaders, who want to [.].

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